Nancy Pearcey
To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.Collection: Intellectual
Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable FactsCollection: Trying
To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.Collection: Idols
The Rosetta Stone of Christian social thought is the Trinity.Collection: Christian
The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.Collection: White
Christian adults need to think about talking to our own children as a form of cross-cultural missions. Cultural change happens so quickly that teens are exposed to ideas and worldviews very different from those of previous generations.Collection: Christian
For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.Collection: Males
We need to understand enough of modern thought to identify the ways it blocks us from living out the Gospel the way God intends, both in terms of intellectual roadblocks and in terms of economic and structural changes that make it harder to live by Scriptural principles.Collection: Block
When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.Collection: Christian
Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.Collection: Classroom
America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.Collection: Struggle
America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.Collection: America
Redemption is as comprehensive as Creation and Fall. God does not save our souls while leaving our minds to function on their own. He redeems the whole person. Conversion is meant to give new direction to our thoughts, emotions, wills and habits.Collection: Fall
When people commit themselves to a certain vision of reality, it becomes their ultimate explainer. It serves to interpret the universe for them, to guide their moral decisions, to give meaning and purpose to life, and all the other functions normally associated with a religion.Collection: Reality
In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.Collection: Religious
Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to “humbleness.” But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to robots.Collection: Views
In many churches, the message of justification- how to get right with God- is preached over and over again. But much less is said about sanctification- how to live after you're converted.Collection: Church
America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.Collection: Character
Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.Collection: Giving
I discovered that Christianity does have the resources to meet the challenges posed by competing worldviews after all.Collection: Challenges
An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part of the created order? Sure it is. So the philosophy of materialism qualifies as an idol in the biblical sense.Collection: Philosophy
The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy. That is the data it seeks to explain. If it fails to explain the data of experience, then it has failed the test. It has been falsified.Collection: Philosophy
If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.Collection: Suicide
An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.Collection: Reality
My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.Collection: Children
Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.Collection: Children
A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.Collection: Doe
The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.Collection: Party
The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.Collection: Pieces
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.Collection: Literary Theory
In high school, I came to realize I had a second-hand faith, derived from my parents and family background. I had no actual reasons for believing it.Collection: Believe
I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.Collection: Adults
Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.Collection: People
When we encounter the world of ideas for the first time, we easily get overwhelmed. Scripture is telling us, 'Don't be distracted by the details. Cut to the core by asking, What is its idol?' Whatever functions as its God substitute will shape everything else.Collection: Cutting